Eurynome

Eurynome

(yo͞orĭn`əmē), in Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and mother, by Zeus, of the Graces. In the mythology of the Pelasgians, an aboriginal non-Greek people living in Greece before the Mycenaean period, she rose alone out of chaos and separated the earth from the sky. She created the great serpent Ophion and mated with him. Thus she gave birth to all existing things.

Nine years did I stay with them, and many beautiful works in bronze, brooches, spiral armlets, cups, and chains, did I make for them in their cave, with the roaring waters of Oceanus foaming as they rushed ever past it; and no one knew, neither of gods nor men, save only Thetis and Eurynome who took care of me.

Now when Penelope heard that the beggar had been struck in the banqueting-cloister, she said before her maids, "Would that Apollo would so strike you, Antinous," and her waiting woman Eurynome answered, "If our prayers were answered not one of the suitors would ever again see the sun rise.

15) who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping -- to this charge Zeus appointed them -- Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso, Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all.

However some tradition they dispers'd Among the Heathen of thir purchase got, And Fabl'd how the Serpent, whom they calld OPHION with EURYNOME, the wide- Encroaching EVE perhaps, had first the rule Of high OLYMPUS, thence by SATURN driv'n And OPS, ere yet DICTAEAN JOVE was born.

She takes the characters of Eurycleia and Eurynome, including the relationship that both have with Penelope, and she says that Homer depicted both as opposite paradigms "while Eurynome's advice would corrupt Penelope from her loyalty to Odysseus if she followed it, Eurycleia's counsel is valid and saves her mistress from disaster.

Although the number of Phaethornitinae species was similar to values recorded in certain Atlantic Forest areas (Araujo, 1996; Rocca-de-Andrade, 2006), in the Colombian Amazon (Rosero-Lasprilla and Sazima, 2004) and in natural forest patches in the southern Pantanal (Araujo and Sazima, 2003), the hummingbird P eurynome was recorded only in larger forest patches.

We also see the visual power of Zeus in the largely impersonal catalogue of his erotic conquests at the end of the Theogony; here, Hesiod presents a miniature of desire and visual power in his brief description of Zeus's third 'marriage' to Eurynome and of his daughters the Graces: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (From their eyes desire, the limbmelter, trickles down when they look; and they look beautifully from under their eyebrows, Theog.

We see this with Telemachus when he is bathed by Polycaste and emerges from the bath "in form like unto the immortals" and when Odysseus is bathed by the housewife Eurynome and "forth from the bath he came, in form like unto the immortals.

The most internationally successful German-based sire ever, Acatenango has yet to be represented by a Pattern winner in Britain, but Elacata, Epaphos, Eurynome and Acceleration all notched successes in France, while Concepcion, Hamond and Noel added to Lando's scores in Italy, and Uriah collected a Grade 2 win in New York.

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